Hoodwinking Luo Shuying, A New Round of Simulation!
by spirapiraBy now, Luo Shuying had placed her complete trust in Su Xing, and she nodded hurriedly:
“As you command, Senior!”
“Is there anything I can do to be of service to you, Senior?”
At this moment, in Luo Shuying’s heart, Su Xing was an absolute senior expert and righteous figure who had fought against the foreign races for a thousand years.
He was also Luo Shuying’s lifeline for self-redemption and saving the Spirit Clan’s world!
Su Xing maintained his calm and unhurried expression, letting out a sigh:
“Your current strength is still far too weak… you haven’t even reached Legendary realm yet…”
“How about this—go to the Advent Cult’s treasury and find a piece of Condensing Wood. I’ll refine a batch of Mind-Condensing Pills for you, which can help you break through to Legendary!”
Upon hearing this, Luo Shuying was overjoyed, now even more convinced that Su Xing was a reclusive, peerless master.
“Thank you, Senior!”
Luo Shuying bowed respectfully.
Su Xing gave a slight nod and said:
“From now on, on this same day every month, you may come here to find me. If I’m not here, you’re free to leave…”
“On the eighth of next month, bring me the Condensing Wood. Then wait another month, and you may come to collect the pills…”
Luo Shuying nodded immediately upon hearing this.
Su Xing then used spiritual energy to draw the appearance of the Condensing Wood in the air, and gave Luo Shuying several other instructions.
Afterward, Luo Shuying took her leave and prepared to return to the Advent Cult.
Su Xing, meanwhile, carefully erased every trace of their meeting at this location, shielded the area from heavenly divination, and only then rode his sword to head back to Capital City.
To be safe, Su Xing didn’t return to Capital City directly. Instead, he alternated between aerial, land, and water routes, taking a massive detour through seven or eight provinces before finally arriving back at Capital City.
Returning to his familiar Dormitory, Su Xing let out a long breath and entered the spirit field grotto-heaven.
Inside the spirit field grotto-heaven, Su Xing pondered carefully for a long while. Only after confirming there were no loose ends from this trip did he finally relax.
“Phew~ Force-killing Old Dog Zong and making contact with Luo Shuying—it was certainly risky, but the rewards are tempting enough!”
Su Xing murmured to himself.
In the Real World, it was better not to reveal his identity to Luo Shuying.
Especially now that he understood just how powerful the Advent Cult and the foreign races were—the fewer people who knew Su Xing’s identity, the better.
Ideally, everyone would continue to see Su Xing as a held-back student who couldn’t graduate—a dead-last nobody. That would suit Su Xing perfectly.
With that thought, Su Xing took out an item.
It was none other than Old Dog Zong’s storage bag!
“Finally got my hands on it… Everything in this storage bag represents Old Dog Zong’s accumulated wealth from thousands of years!”
Su Xing rubbed his hands together with barely contained excitement.
The first thing he pulled out was a massive pile of spirit stones.
At this point, Old Dog Zong hadn’t yet hidden his spirit stones in Five Elements Mountain, so the storage bag contained nearly eighty thousand spirit stones.
Su Xing carefully added this batch of spirit stones to his own stockpile.
With this, Su Xing’s total count of low-grade spirit stones surpassed three hundred thousand!
Su Xing then continued sorting through the contents of the storage bag.
Jade slips containing cultivation techniques and spells were set aside for his collection—these things might prove very useful to Su Xing in the future.
There were also various magical treasures, which Su Xing categorized accordingly.
Treasures like the Five Thunder Pellets, for instance, were quite useful to Su Xing.
However, Old Dog Zong’s commonly used treasures like the bone sword and Soul-Summoning Banner held little appeal for him.
For one, these treasures were far too sinister in nature, and for another, their side effects were too severe.
Moreover, Su Xing was already nurturing his own natal artifact, so there was no need to settle for lesser alternatives.
“Hmm, these spiritual herbs are actually quite impressive in quality—they’re at least several hundred years old… I’ll store them carefully. They might come in handy for pill refinement later…”
Su Xing took out several jade boxes and placed the spiritual herbs inside to prevent their medicinal properties from evaporating.
He then carefully arranged the various bottles and jars of pills, planning to examine their effects when he had more time.
As for those few puppets, Su Xing left them untouched for now.
After all, they still bore restrictive seals that could easily tip off others.
Keeping them in the spirit field grotto-heaven was the safest approach.
After finishing the categorization of all the treasures in the storage bag, Su Xing let out a long breath and began reading Old Dog Zong’s Diary.
“Year 2377 of the Immortal-Martial Calendar: Entered the sect. Happened to meet Fairy Flower… Truly beautiful as a celestial maiden. I felt so utterly inferior…”
“Year 2378 of the Immortal-Martial Calendar: Fairy Flower gave me directions. I was so excited I couldn’t sleep all night…”
“Year 2379 of the Immortal-Martial Calendar: Passed by Fairy Flower’s quarters. Mustered the courage to approach and ask for guidance on cultivation techniques…”
“Year 2380 of the Immortal-Martial Calendar: Chatted with Fairy Flower for a long time. She said I’m a good person… Strange, was that a compliment?”
“Year 2382 of the Immortal-Martial Calendar: Bought a century-old vintage wine from below the sect’s mountain for Fairy Flower. Fairy Flower drank it together with the senior disciple… I wanted to join them, but Fairy Flower said I had just started on the path of cultivation and shouldn’t drink… Strange, Master never told me that? Good thing Fairy Flower reminded me…”
Su Xing casually flipped through a few pages of the diary, then couldn’t help but close it.
“Damn, so Old Dog Zong was actually a lovesick simp in his early days!”
“In his earlier diary entries, barely three sentences go by without mentioning Fairy Flower…”
“Tsk tsk, I bet the reason he went down the path of a dark cultivator… was probably because this Fairy Flower hurt him too deeply…”
Su Xing found himself somewhat speechless. Old Dog Zong’s story was truly absurd!
Recalling the puppet of Fairy Flower inside the storage artifact, Su Xing could only sigh that love was truly a stumbling block on the path of cultivation!
“Well, I’ll flip through Old Dog Zong’s diary when I’m bored sometime. There’s bound to be plenty of useful information in there!”
Su Xing put the diary away. After all, it was already in his hands—there was no rush to read it all at once.
The main issue was the sheer volume… Thousands of years’ worth of diary entries—who could possibly read through all of that?
After putting everything away, Su Xing began setting up a spirit-gathering formation.
First, he removed the formation core from his previous spirit-gathering formation, then laid out a new basic spirit-gathering formation.
Next, he combined two basic spirit-gathering formations into an elementary spirit-gathering formation…
And finally, he set up an intermediate spirit-gathering formation!
Setting up just one intermediate spirit-gathering formation alone took Su Xing a full three days.
And this was with Su Xing’s considerable mastery of spirit-gathering formations—otherwise, it would have taken even longer.
“I’ll just set up one for now… After this, I’ll set aside a few days each week to work on more formations. No need to rush it all at once…”
With that decided, Su Xing began his routine pill refinement.
Due to limited time, Su Xing only managed to refine three thousand pills.
On October 14th, Su Xing disguised his appearance and concealed his aura, then went to find Jin Congxue.
In a private room of the villa, Su Xing and Jin Congxue sat facing each other.
After a meal, Su Xing handed over the week’s worth of refined pills to Jin Congxue, and in return received this week’s goods.
With the transaction complete, Su Xing stealthily returned to the spirit field grotto-heaven.
The new week’s goods provided Su Xing with nearly one hundred million energy.
With this, Su Xing’s simulation energy reached five hundred and ninety million once again!
Su Xing nodded to himself and murmured:
“Even without the purified high-grade exotic metal… as the Tarot Society’s business continues to grow… one hundred million energy per week is pretty decent!”
One hundred million per week meant a full four hundred million energy per month!
Though for Su Xing, a month’s worth of energy was barely enough for a few sub-realms of the Void Shattering realm.
But this was, after all, a steady and sustainable stream of energy income. And if Su Xing occasionally picked up some extra work on the side, it would be just barely enough.
On October 14th of New Era 2024, Su Xing promptly began a new round of simulation.
“Begin simulation!”
【Ding! This simulation consumes 5,700 energy points. Remaining energy: 612,330,000 points. Remaining simulation attempts: unlimited.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a purple talent costs 100,000 energy points. Drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1,000,000 energy points. Would you like to draw?】
“Draw the gold talent!” Su Xing intoned silently.
【Ding, congratulations! You have drawn the purple talent Midas Touch. Your probability of drawing a gold-quality talent next time is 35%…】
Sure enough, it was a purple talent, just as expected.
Su Xing wasn’t disappointed though. After all, given the simulator’s famously terrible draw rates, managing to pull a gold talent before reaching seventy percent probability would already make someone incredibly lucky.
“Midas Touch… What kind of talent is this?”
Su Xing’s gaze fell on the talent description.
【Midas Touch】: Purple talent. As the name suggests, you possess the talent to turn stone into gold. By consuming a certain amount of spiritual energy, you can transform ordinary stones into gold.
“Consume spiritual power to transmute gold!?”
“Hiss~ This seems like an absolutely top-tier money-making talent!” Su Xing’s eyes lit up. On Earth, gold was a precious metal worth roughly 400 yuan per gram.
If he could get his hands on enough gold, Su Xing could amass an enormous fortune in a very short time.
“Let me test this talent’s effects first!”
Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you became aware that you were in a simulation.】
【You traveled to a large mountain outside Capital City and carried back a boulder.】
【You attempted to activate your spiritual energy talent to turn the stone into gold.】
【You succeeded!】
【You spent one day transforming that single boulder into a full ton of gold.】
Su Xing raised an eyebrow at this. One ton of gold in a single day — this talent seemed pretty powerful!
But after a quick calculation, Su Xing realized the talent was somewhat underwhelming for him.
At Earth’s market prices, one gram of gold was worth 400 yuan.
One kilogram would be 400,000…
One ton of gold was 400 million!
400 million seemed like a lot, but Su Xing’s daily profits from refining pills alone already exceeded that figure.
After running the numbers briefly, Su Xing shook his head and said:
“What a shame. This talent is useless for now… I wonder if the transmutation speed will increase once my cultivation reaches higher realms?”
Su Xing let out a sigh.
Then again, if Su Xing truly reached that level of power, money would probably be nothing more than a number to him anyway.
“Oh well. My goal this time is to obtain spirit liquid and improve my Body Tempering cultivation… whether this talent is good or bad doesn’t really matter.”
After all, since he needed to stockpile spirit liquid, he naturally couldn’t spend it on advancing his Qi Refinement cultivation.
As such, simultaneously improving his Body Tempering cultivation seemed like the most cost-effective approach.
Su Xing consoled himself with this thought and turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
【You realized the Midas Touch talent was of little use to you.】
【So you began setting up compound spirit-gathering formations in the spirit field grotto-heaven, along with Water-Gathering Formations.】
【You spent three weeks completing the setup of these formations.】
【By this point, the spirit field grotto-heaven had already advanced to a mid-grade grotto-heaven.】
【As such, the spirit field grotto-heaven would now provide you with three thousand drops of spirit liquid per week, while also saving you the time of collecting it manually.】
【After setting up the spirit-gathering formations, you went to find Luo Shuying as agreed.】
【With Luo Shuying’s introduction, you joined the Advent Cult.】
【Leveraging your Self-Help Guru talent, you quickly attracted a large following of devoted fanatics.】
【You spent two years in the Advent Cult, during which you devoted all your time to refining pills and accumulated sixty days’ worth of the Great Wisdom state.】
【In the third year, you refined a total of 200,000 pills, nearly draining the Advent Cult’s treasury dry.】
【You decided the time was ripe and defected from the Advent Cult.】
【You joined Xia’s military, using the pills you had refined to cultivate a large number of powerful warriors for Great Xia.】
【The Advent Cult’s followers were also duped by you into heading to Demon-Sealing Pass to fight the enemy.】
【Over the course of three years, the spirit field grotto-heaven produced 470,000 drops of low-grade spirit liquid for you.】
【You sealed the spirit liquid in jade bottles and felt deeply satisfied.】
Su Xing nodded with approval at this. Everything was going exactly as he had planned.
“Three years, 470,000 drops of spirit liquid — that’s an average of over 150,000 per year…”
“At that rate, a single twenty-five-year simulation could provide at least 3.8 to 3.9 million drops of spirit liquid!”
Su Xing’s eyes lit up. If he could stockpile that much spirit liquid, then in his next simulation, he might be able to break through all the way to Void Return stage Great Perfection in one go!
Su Xing felt a surge of anticipation as he turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
【In the fourth year, you traveled to Demon-Sealing Pass, preparing to find a way to slay Legendary demonic beasts.】
【Legendary demonic beasts were scarce at Demon-Sealing Pass. You and Luo Shuying fought on the front lines of the battlefield for two years before finally killing one Legendary-stage demonic beast.】
【You extracted the Legendary demonic beast’s blood essence and refined it into one hundred Legendary-grade Rebirth Pills.】
【You began using Rebirth Pills daily for cultivation, and your vital energy and cultivation grew steadily.】
【In the fifth year, your supply of Rebirth Pills ran out, and Legendary demonic beasts were difficult to find on the battlefield. Your cultivation speed began to decline.】
【You spent two years before encountering another Legendary-stage demonic beast. You slew it and used its blood essence to produce more Rebirth Pills.】
【In the seventh year, you consumed Rebirth Pills and your cultivation advanced steadily.】
【You concluded that the number of Legendary demonic beasts at Demon-Sealing Pass was too few to sustain your pill-refining needs, so you began seeking alternatives.】
【You recalled the Beast Taming World you had encountered before — a world teeming with Legendary demonic beasts, more than enough for you to hunt.】
【You prepared to travel to the Beast Taming World.】
In the real world, Su Xing nodded slightly at this and said:
“The reason humanity has been able to hold Demon-Sealing Pass for so long is precisely because, although the demon forces there are numerous, Legendary-grade or higher demonic beasts rarely appear.”
“But in the Beast Taming World’s Slaughter Battlefield, the fighting is far more intense… Legendary demonic beasts are anything but rare.”
“That makes it the perfect place for me to obtain Legendary blood essence.”
At Su Xing’s current level of strength, Demon Emperor Blood Essence yielded diminishing returns.
Only by acquiring large quantities of Legendary blood essence could he rapidly increase his power!
“Come to think of it… if I kill enough Legendary demonic beasts, would the crisis at Demon-Sealing Pass twenty-five years from now resolve itself?”
Su Xing felt a spark of anticipation. If he truly managed that, could the twenty-five-year simulation time limit be extended once again?
With this thought in mind, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【You found the dungeon coordinates from your memory and arrived at the red dragon’s lair.】
【With your abundant martial virtue, you persuaded through force and successfully beat the red dragon into submission.】
【You learned that this red dragon’s name was Barrett.】
【You rode the red dragon Barrett to Beast Taming City.】
【The powerful figures in Beast Taming City were soon drawn out by the red dragon’s formidable draconic aura and came to meet you outside the city.】
【Leveraging your Self-Help Guru talent, you effortlessly won the trust of Beast Taming City’s powerhouses.】
【You declared yourself a beast tamer with a heart of justice, willing to take your red dragon to the Slaughter Battlefield to fight the foreign invaders.】
【The Beast Taming City lord was deeply moved and personally escorted you a thousand miles from the city.】
【You followed the other Legendary beast tamers to the Beast Taming World’s Slaughter Battlefield.】
【Sure enough, the scale of this world’s Slaughter Battlefield dwarfed Demon-Sealing Pass. Countless demonic beast armies swarmed the field, among which Demon Emperors and Legendary-stage demonic beasts were far from few.】
【Correspondingly, the number of powerhouses in this world far exceeded that of Earth.】
【Through the introductions of your fellow fighters, you learned that this protracted war had been raging for nearly a thousand years.】
【At first, these invading foreign beings were not particularly powerful, but over the centuries they had grown increasingly stronger.】
【Until now, the people of the Beast Taming World had no choice but to marshal the strength of their entire world to collectively resist the foreign invaders!】
【You silently committed all of this to memory and began fighting on the battlefield.】
【With your powerful physical body and primordial energy, freshly-advanced Legendary demonic beasts were hardly a match for you.】
【The only headache was that these Legendary demonic beasts seldom acted alone. When multiple Legendary demonic beasts coordinated their attacks, even you had no choice but to flee.】
【Even so, working alongside these powerful beast tamers, it took you only three months to slay a Legendary-stage demonic beast.】
【Demonic beast blood essence was of no use to the beast tamers, so all of it was refined by you into pills to improve your Body Tempering cultivation.】
【In the eighth year, you killed several Legendary-stage demonic beasts over the course of one year.】
【All of their blood essence was refined by you into Rebirth Pills.】
【With the help of the Rebirth Pills, your vital energy grew increasingly robust and your cultivation advanced ever further.】
【You could feel that you were not far from reaching the second layer of the Void Shattering realm…】
【And so, another two years passed…】
【In the tenth year, you had killed over a dozen Legendary-stage demonic beasts during these years, refining over a thousand Rebirth Pills in total.】
【This year, your Body Tempering cultivation broke through to the second layer of the Void Shattering realm!】
【Upon reaching the second layer of the Void Shattering realm, your strength increased by a full fifty percent. When channeling primordial energy, you could unleash a maximum force of 1.5 million tons!】
【You still had several hundred unconsumed Rebirth Pills remaining.】
【At the same time, you had been away from the real world for a long while and worried that something unexpected might have occurred, so you made time to return to Earth.】
【Fortunately, everything on Earth was normal. The situation at Demon-Sealing Pass was relatively stable — with the fortified pass holding firm, humanity kept the foreign invaders at bay beyond the walls.】
【That same year, your accumulated spirit liquid reached 1.55 million drops!】